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Union Buster Update
As we all know, the anti-union campaign will intensify
as the election date nears. The attempts by your managers to "educate"
you about the evils of unions and MNA will become more frequent
and impassioned. Understand that rumors and misinformation are at
the heart of the union buster campaign. The hospital has been
using the union-busting firm of Jackson and Lewis. The firm is nationally
known and their primary function is litigating for employers in
cases of employee organizing efforts (union busting). The firm is
mentioned in the book, "confessions of a union buster" written by
Martin Leavitt a former member of a union busting firm that is also
nationally known. The following is an excerpt from this book:
"Union busting is a field populated by bullies and
built on deceit. A campaign against a union is an assault on individuals
and a war on the truth. As such, it is a war without honor. The
only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten,
and always, always attack. The law does not hamper the process rather
it serves to suggest maneuvers and define strategies. Each union
prevention campaign, as the wars are called, turns on a combined
strategy of misinformation and personal assaults. The union buster's
key strategy, when confronted with an election, is to delay the
ballot, thereby buying time to organize a so-called counter campaign."
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